I had 3 asvab waivers, 4 “jail or army”, and 7 homeless kids in my basic training. I ran into my drill sergeant from then and he even said. “I felt like I made too many short bus jokes in my career that karma had to come after me”
What year was this? Cuz I was in basic during Bush's "troop surge" and I don't think it was that bad. there were a lot of criminal and tattoo waivers when I was going through tho
When I tried to enlist they wouldn't grant a waiver for a simple possession (wasn't even convicted). I was bummed as hell, cause I really wanted/needed a purpose. Oh well.
I had an asvab score of 98. The two other recruits who got their scores back when I did got an 11 and 13 respectively. I will remember them until the day I die, because they were so confused about what that meant. They believed they were in the top 11-13 percentile until the recruiter came in and asked "did you fucks even spell your names right?"
I was in JROTC too, Air Force flavor comin out of MD. Scored 72 and had a 112 GT score comin out of high school. This is insane, not surprising considering Oregon dropping all testing requirements for graduating their high schools for the next 2 or 3 years
I served with a dude that had to get an ASVAB waiver to get in. Nicest, hardest working dude you'd ever meet But boy, there were days where I'm pretty sure someone else tied his boots and shaved his face for him.......
My brother was in the MARINES and met his wife who was also in the MARINES. She may have been smarter enough to pass the test but her personality is dumb. My whole family wished my brother never met her. All she does is sit on the couch playing on her computer. The only thing good is that at least she cooks but can't get off her lazy ass to clean the house. Both my brother and her are lazy because one summer my home town had to give them a warning to mow the lawn or they start getting fined for not doing so for so long. They have two kids but the oldest is autistic and was babied by Mommy so I know she's not doing anything with her life and the youngest I have a feeling she might struggle a bit as well. I love my brother but wish he pull his head out of his ass
Scored a 90 the first time, with four buddies, to cut school (its was boring AF). The Navy guy who was proctor said we all cheated, shared our answers, and told us we needed to reschedule the test separately. Scheduled mine a week later, had the whole room to myself, with an Army guy and a civie watching me. Scored a 92. Went to be an MP. All my buddies scored better on their separate tastings. Not one of us studied anything, it was pretty much straight forward... 3 went USMC infantry, one went Navy to work nukes. Scoring a 30 is pretty pathetic...
My lowest section was an 85 in administrative, everything else was above a 92, and I got a crew chief contract. Jokes on them, I was assigned to the 16th, working on gunships as a 21 year old was the sickest part of my life at that point.
You sound like the most ass fuck guy ever scoring a 30 is pathetic? Not everyone grows up with mommy and daddy’s support and good school some of us are left on our own and have to work hard to get to your level because we weren’t spoiled like you. I scored and 31 my first time studied extremely hard took it again and got a 88 unlike you I actually know what it’s like to come from nothing and work hard to get something unlike your ass who was spoon fed your whole life and then talks down about others not meeting your standard because you were given an easy life
i maxed my asvab out for the air force, so they basically handed me a HUGE book at denver meps and said "pick something." i ended up doing satellite communications engineering, and worked with raytheon and lockheed on some seriously cool new equipment (at the time 25 years ago). methinks the numbers are so low because the younger generations are doing 2 things. 1) seeing how vets are treated from lots of social media exposure, and 2) deciding that dying fighting overseas for people they dont know isn't worth the crappy paycheck the military pays. when i was active, enlisted up through e5 qualified for FOOD STAMPS........................... you aren't talking someone into fighting in another country when they have to use government assistance to eat.
i took asvab for giggles in high school, had no intention of joining. mostly for that 2nd reason, dieing for stupid elderly beaurocrats wasnt isn't acceptable to me. i knew the pay wasnt great but figured living on barracks and other military assistance would make it work out ok, didn't realize it was actually that bad
Same thing happened to me, was Army though. They handed me what looked like a NYC phone book and said to pick something. I picked 32c. Sadly, I never got to finish basic due to a bad knee from a car accident my Jr year of hs.
I agree with why the numbers are low. I'm all for joining the military if America itself is being invaded or threatened. But I'm not going to go fight in a random country in the middle east as part of a proxy war.
Scoring low on the asvab to avoid serving doesn't make sense as an excuse. We're not drafting, its volunteer. They don't have to join if they don't want to. Schools have just either dumbed down the requirements to graduate, or students just aren't paying any attention in classes and graduating anyway - so they really can't get better scores on the asvab. If they're actually thinking about any of those things you mention they just wouldn't go to the recruiting office to begin with.
In 2009 I was denied by the Army, Marines, and Navy with an AFQT of 87 (89 when I retook it), no criminal history, in good shape, but had dropped out of highschool so I only had a GED. 2024: "Well I suppose as long as they wrote their name *somewhere* on the asvab it is valid."
Last spring they were taking people with no HS diploma, no GED, and had a minimum of 20 on the ASVAB. Even at the height of the GWOT, you better have a HS diploma before going to the recruiter. GEDs not accepted.
Guard had a GED program specifically for that problem.. 2 weeks on a base with some crackshot teachers. 👌 this was 2010. In uniform, reciting the soldiers creed everyday. And ya got paid. Diploma thing is retarded.. lotta bright ppl drop out
Joined the Army in 2002, swore in early 2003, was in basic by May. No HS diploma and just a GED. Didn’t even need to waiver for it. I did however have to waiver because I had a Curfew Violation on my record from when I was 16 and was arrested at a local Denny’s for being out with my 22 year old brother at the time.
I had a girl at BMT flag all of us with her "rifle" (it was just a training weapon, thankfully) twice. We were doing tactical columns. She was in the right column and was right-handed. I told her to switch columns since she's right handed so her "rifle" would be pointed out at potential threats. She argued that she wanted to stay with her friends, and she would be able to raise her rifle to face the threat quick enough. She demonstrated by raising it at my column and spinning (and flagging) half the damn flight to do so. She did this 2 more times to prove how fast she could do it and never noticed anything wrong. I'm glad she's in the Air Force and doesn't have to deal with live firearms too much. Zero comprehension of gun safety.
Got one even better. In 2010 I was in Bagram and kept getting flagged by a SrA with her loaded M-16. Every time she took it off her back to put into the weapons rack she'd flag me and the entire clamshell tent we were working in. I've asked he to knock it off multiple times and got nothing but attitude. So one day she does it in front of our MSgt and I ask him to tell her to stop flagging me. She grabs her M-16 by the grip with one hand and asks "What? Like this?" - pointing the barrel directly at me and bouncing it up and down. A loaded M-16. The MSgt laughed it off and told her to stop. Me being chairforce, I was too much of a wuss to do anything about it besides stand there pissed off.
@@anothernewaccount1657what did you do as your job? I usually exaggerated if I noticed that, jump out of the way and yell at them, make a scene. If they do it again, as quick as possible grab the barrel and yell at them. We had a guy do that in Al Asad and we took his rifle and slapped him. Granted, I was MX in AFSOC and most of us had guns back home so we took that shit seriously.
I mean, you can respond to threats from the right column as a righty, but it takes handling weapons on a regular basis to do it safely and proficiently
@@anothernewaccount1657Define "loaded" though. Because in my Air Force experience nobody walks around with a chambered round in their M-16s. After Armory issue it was always Bolt Forward, Hammer Down, then Insert Loaded Magazine. "Rack Safe" as the Delta Boys in Blackhawk Down called it.
@@Ryan_Christopher On one hand I get your point, and the way we carried was in yellow status: full mag but no round in the chamber... but on the other hand that doesn't give you a lot of comfort (or it didn't for me anyways) when someone's directly pointing at you with their hand on the grip.
I never served but over the course of the various jobs I've held I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. People that are actually above average intelligence when they choose to be, but they can turn it off and refuse to use their brains for work. Some of these people use chemicals to do it by showing up drunk or high but some are just able to be stupid at will. You engage them in conversation about a complex topic and they show themselves to be quick on the uptake with interesting thoughts or solutions. But ask them to do their job and they refuse to apply more than the absolute minimum mental effort to not get fired, if that.
People of above-average intelligence need to be stimulated in order to take interest in the job, and aren't good at drudgery, but give them a crisis and watch them turn on.
Yep, that's me. I drove my managers at Walmart crazy because I dared to show *initiative* and critical thinking. I quickly learned that they wanted a machines, not people and they value employees as such.
@@Legitpenguins99That's why I like machining. Lots of problem solving. Problem is 90% of available machining jobs pay like shit thanks to globalism, and the 10% that actually pay well are so sought after you would be lucky to get them with 20 years of experience.
I did show drive and initiative in my work and you know what that got me, more work! No pay raise to compensate, but enough work for three people or so and a pat on the back. Mind you, I'm not even 20 and barely out of high school. That's when my mom took me aside, we talked, and a few things really started to click. These jobs don't want employees, we're just numbers to them. What they want is the job to be done, at the least possible expense. No more going above and beyond, no more staying late. Just do the job I was hired to do, collect my check, go home. If you don't care about me, why should I care about you? I want to care, I want to love my job, but no one gives me a reason to.
at a VA mental health eval, i scored an IQ of 129 after 3 days of sleep deprivation. google what THAT crap does to your score. it's basically like a bad hangover!
I saw a guy in 2004 at MEPS who scored a 12 on his ASVAB (this was his second attempt). He obviously didn't get in as the minimum was around 33-35 as I recall. There was a guy in my BCT company who everyone assumed had to have gotten an ASVAB waiver. The guy was seriously unable to read a room and had zero common sense. He was messing up so frequently that eventually the Drill Sergeants stopped punishing everyone for his mistakes as it didn't do any good (he couldn't learn and we couldn't peer pressure him into "getting smarter"). One of his typical incidents was walking up to the battalion commander in the field (he had stopped by to touch base with the company CO), interrupting their private meeting, saluting both of them, and reporting that "the latrines are out of toilet paper." The CO thanked him for the information, directed him to inform the 1SG that the CO had been notified about the situation, and he did it. (The guy seriously told on himself to the 1SG and was surprised when he got the crap smoked out of him for jumping the chain of command.) That was a minor issue compared to some of the stunts he pulled but it's short and easy to relate.
We had a guy interrupt the Battalion Commander once to ask him to borrow money while he was talking to the guy's Company Commander. Even funnier, when the Bn Cdr asked him if he knew who he was, he said no, even though the LTC was literally standing next to his Command photo in the lobby. Idiot.
There's worse. There was a racing driver named Dick Seaman. No, I'm not joking. He never served in the military, but with a name like that, I wouldn't want to
Dumbest thing I've ever seen in the military... Onboard a gator freighter in the middle of a hurricane, ship's rolling like no one had seen, 15~20 each way with some freaky pitching that was like an express elevator to hell every 30 to 45 seconds. The p-way to the galley was a-beam (length wise) to the ship, and there were a couple vending machines that were bolted to the deck via angle brackets. Well after about an hour or so, one of the soda machines broke loose and started causing havoc, as you can imagine. So, in time with the rolling of the ship this vending machine would fly by the hatchway, crashing into things all along the way, including a fire extinguisher that got ruptured and shot like a damned rocket through the p-way. We got the hatches closed save for one, since this was in the aft of the galley we could still get out the forward part of the galley, that one hatch was our entertainment until the DC gang came along and figure out how to stop this thing. Well along comes a Marine that thinks he's going to be the main character of this little story, and he kinda was but not in the way he thought. He was a brick shithouse of a Marine, and like most infantry grunts thought himself indestructible believing that "God has a hardon for Marines". Well, he decided to step into that p-way to try and stop that vending machine. You can imagine what happened next, the rest of us Squids and Devil Dogs were like that scene from Gremlins in the bar when the one went flying across the bar from the ceiling fan. Yeah, we watch that machine hit the dude, then we saw the dude and the vending machine disappear down the starboard side of the p-way. Dumbest thing I ever saw, but the second dumbest is when some of us decided to do a joint-service effort to help the dude. Kinda just happened, but a couple of us Squids, including myself, and a couple Devil Dogs jumped out and chased that damned machine down the p-way when it came back and pinned it against the far port bulkhead. It took about 12 of us all stacked against the damned thing to keep it from going mobile again. DC gang showed up and all we could do is yell at them to get a f&*cking strap to hold this goddamned machine and get medical for the dude that got pancaked against the starboard bulkhead. One of the DC gang tried to yell at us for trying to stop a piece of loose gear during rough seas and, not sure where this Gunny came from, yelled back "They didn't, that dumb f&*ck down there did and they are trying to keep his ass from becoming part of the bulkhead!" I love that Gunny, he never ceased to amaze me during the deployment and that day, on our way back to Norfolk after the long Med Cuise, he got one more chance to be the ultimate Gunny. Oh and yes, trying to eat chow during that was entertaining to say the least, try holding on to the chair with your legs, that's not only bolted to the deck but part of the table, and hold your tray and drink with one hand and eat with the other. That storm was fun and that poor dumbass Marine will never again try to be the main character again I suppose.
Ya know, even dumb animals size up stuff and say na that's bigger than me and get out of its way. This is what we call crazier than you are dumb and it's dangerous.
I took the ASVAB in high school because they were offering free breakfast, and we got to go home early. I basically skipped the English section, and I still got a 68. My line scores to be a mechanic were high enough for the job I wanted, so I didn't retake it to sign up. After being in for 8 years, fresh back from deployment, I went into recruiting and had to retake the ASVAB to get a higher score. I went thought the practice once, went to MEPS and got a 98.
Ask my wife whats wrong with the military and her response: the pay is shit, benefits are meh, complete jackasses in charge who all think the military should be run 1000 different ways. She says the military needs to sort itself out if they ever want to improve retention.
Cursive thing is crazy. I was unfortunate enough that I was never taught it. The stupid education system will randomly decide like every decade "Oh we don't need to teach cursive!" Skip a year and then decide they want to start teaching cursive again.
Writing in cursive is really like the worst possible argument to use here. I mean I wouldn't even necessarily disagree, but trying to use "she's like the only person there who can write in cursive" is like saying "can you believe she's the only person there who knows how to properly spike a canon?!" That's just not a thing people need to know anymore. Hell, I literally use fountain pens as my main method of writing and even I don't use formal cursive. Most "casual cursive" is an improvised mix of what we'd think of as cursive and print lettering that each individual sorta gets their own style for. Formalized cursive is more of the posh, gussied up style that people go out of their way to write cleanly.
My niece unfortunately score below minimum on ASVAB last year because she couldn’t do things like long division or multiplication because the school never taught her. Instead this Common Core crap didn’t teach them the way to get the proper answer, just some stupid magic way of getting something close. I’m scared for the future because what kids are not taught today.
I dropped out right before Common Core got implemented and I’m glad for it. No Child Left Behind wasn’t good but at least I learned long division and multiplication, I do fear for the World and the generations that follow after I’m gone.
theyre doing it in order to get more people QUALIFIED. the administration has nothing to do with it. the problem is the lower quality of people actually going in for the testing. too many are failing. but, with recruitment numbers SO LOW, if they want to keep things running, they have to lower the standards so those who were below the cut off could still enlist. it's either that or start a draft, which isnt going to fly when we're not in open war. i think it's a 2 prong problem. potential recruits are seeing how bad vets are being treated after leaving service (my va battles have been over 20 years and in court currently), and the pay is still abysmal compared to other high risk jobs or high skill jobs. my job was satellite communications engineering. i qualified for food stamps while working on multi million dollar equipment. my same exact job in the private sector was making 6 figures 25 years ago.
All their side does is lower standards and drag society down to their retarded level. What else would you expect of the people who subscribe to the economic equivalent of flat earth theory?
We had a guy in my basic training, back in the late 90s, that wasn't all there. He was national guard and came in as a "Bath and laundry specialist" because he was told they would never go to war. When we informed him that baths and laundry are still needed in combat zones, he broke down crying.
Got an 86 right out of high school, and rushed through it. I’m really not in understanding how some of those low scores are possible, unless you intentionally blow the test.
When I did RA for a month, I turned away about a dozen people from the Mariner Corps. Each one scored below 20 on the Pre-ASVAB test. I tried to score that low on my own, and I still scored in the thirties.
I got pulled in for mandatory service back in the day (Germany btw), all tests were good but I failed the piss test, which I wanted to at the time. But there was a guy that stood out to me, shaved head, dressed in a bomber jacket, etc. After I failed the piss test I sat outside smoking, saw him walk out and he looked devastated. Asked him what happened and he told me and I quote "Did you have to do the test with the colors and shapes?". Apparently they made him do a 4th grade tier test because he was that dense. To this day I still wonder what happened to him.
94 was my score testing for the Air Force and had my choice of jobs. Picked Flight Simulators that turned into a great career. Best move I ever made and even better….I get thanked for my service. Turns out that means a lot. Everyone should give the Military some thought.
I have legitimately had the same patient presentation, complete with that same excuse. Truly, we forever see the proof of 'You can't treat stupid, but you can sedate it.'
another issue is that Meps has a new system thats way better at finding you medical history. felt depressed when your first girlfriend cheated on you in highschool and got therapy for your depression denied, adhd denied, a slight asthma that went away when you stopped being a fat kid denied.
My son wants to be a pilot and I told him if he ever feels like he needs to talk to someone, just suppress everything because your temporary sadness can destroy your life. (Seriously, I said just talk to me and his mom).
Retired Navy HMC Here (FMF). Back in the 80’s, the AFQT standard was 50 or higher for all services. A high school graduate or 11S (someone who’s a senior and expected to graduate) could get in the Navy with a 35 if he received an NRD waiver (Navy Recruiting District). Juniors and drop outs had to score a minimum of 45. Most of the low scorers went in without job guarantees and had to “strike” for a rating after 12 months in service. A 26 AFQT didn’t even qualify for an NRC waiver (Navy Recruiting Command). The Chair Force and Marines have always required higher AFQT scores. Apparently you need to be smart to fly a desk or eat crayons. (Just kidding, I love my Devil Dog brothers)
I tested out of high school early at age 17 to join the Army. I scored top 2% in the nation. After I took the ASVAB, one of my Drill Sergeants was yelling at me. He said, "What in the fuck are you doing here, Private!?". I inquired, "Did I score poorly, Drill Sergeant?", to which he yelled, "You scored top 2%! You need to be a doctor, or scientist!". I mistook his meaning to be he was challenging me like smart people can't hack it in the Army. Fortunately, I'm well-made physically, so I excelled as a 13B. It wasn't until later that I realized that DS wasn't challenging me. He literally meant I would be a much better asset to society outside of the military rather than risking getting blown up on a battlefield as a teenager. I lived through Desert Storm, and I don't regret joining the military. However, being illegally used as a guinea pig for experimental drugs that have had lifelong detrimental effects on my body very much soured the experience.
I joined the Army in 2007. We had a guy in basic that was able to reassemble his M16 with the BCG backwards. The only reason I know that he did this was when we were at the range and ask the Drill Sargent why he was not able to camber a round.
@@schaddenkorp6977 No seriously, took me a few to put BCG and bolt carrier group together. But there's no way that thing came back together like that 😂
The US military isn't alone in this, nearly every western military has the same problem. I recently saw a report from the Canadian military saying that, in order to help them only take the best, they're getting rid of their version of the ASVAB. So, according to them, in order to make sure they only take the best, they're getting rid of the thing designed to help them determine who is the best
Canada is in bad shape. Anecdotally, I have a cousin who was in "special" classes all the way through school. At 27 she decided she was joining with her boyfriend (who is also lower end of intelligence spectrum). I said "OK sure, good luck". To my utter shock they were both accepted. IMO neither of them should be within a country mile of combat. Small consolation is that she was put in logistics and he motorpool as far as I'm aware (not that that's great either).
Another story. At MEPS I took my test. Got a 62 overall. Not great. (Laziness in school). I felt bad. I wanted to hit 70 at least. Anyway I’m feeling down and this kid sits near me. We start talking “man, got a 62. I’m a fucking idiot.” “What did you get?” “A 8”. Army recruiter came over and was like “we can waiver that son, welcome to the army”
Navy recruiter. At one point in 2024 we were taking ASVAB scores of 10 and up. Even raised body fat percentage to 32% males and 36% females. I have kids scoring single digits after repeated attempts. I’ve got horror stories. BUT, we’re gonna follow the standards and write the contracts. Whatever I have to do to go home and see my family. Of course…Genesis is not helping.
When I was in the recruiter’s office, filling out background paperwork, I saw a kid come in and beat random chance on the practice test. 4 possible answers per question, and he got a 17/100. Just answering “A” would’ve probably given him a 25/100
I am a dumb hillbilly from Northeast Tennessee and took the ASVAB in 1997 before joining the Army. I aced the test and thought it was a joke of a test. If you can't ace the asvab test, you shouldn't be allowed to graduate high-school.
Funny thing about the asvab, I had a composite average of 120 and I was in the 89th percentile, I was qualified for almost 3 pages worth of MOS’s. Then I learned I was colorblind after going to MEPs and my list of jobs shortened to like 10. It went from “do you wanna work with the most advanced weapons known to man” to “do you wanna be a cook or infantry?”
I'm slightly red/green colorblind. I can seen the dot colors but can't sort the characters. I was able to pass the FALANT test (red, green, white colored lights) and ended up in an electronic rating, but I know the feeling.
I don't know how colorblindness would affect your ability to use a computer, but if you're red-green colorblind, you would in theory be better at seeing through camouflage and thus be better at infantry.
OMG! Cody for the WIN!!! 🤣 Man, if standards have sunk that low, I wonder what the requirements for the Naval Nuclear Power program are now. I think it was 90 or so when I joined. When I was going through Power School some of those guys weren't all that bright, either. Most of those were gone by the time I got to the fleet, but they still qualified to get in.
Scored well above 90. Spent most of my childhood at an aviation museum idolizing the WWII pilots. I just felt like the military didnt "need" me. Military didnt seem to offer much that the private sector didnt. Maybe if my eyes were good enough i would have chosen different. I am very thankful for those that served and work for a vet, but i don't regret not joining.
As someone that came out from basic training. Yes. There were people in my company that were....... special. And my MOS is one of the semi high ones. They 100% "help" passing
Navy nuke tech, energy not bombs, have missed the enlisted mark for like 3 year, we go a massive manning issue in the nuclear community coming in the few years. Lot of reasons but a big one ive been hearing is how they mistreated a lot of sailors during c*vid basically putting them in solitary isolation and forgetting to feed them and preventing them from getting food.
Back in '82 had a recruit in formation to go to boot camp graduation say out of the side of his mouth "Drill Instructors are rocks. " Poor kid got run through by not only my platoon's Drill Instructors but the rest of the company's DI's. MAJOR mop session trying to dry the squad bay's quarter deck.
I got an 88 and fell asleep for long enough during the test for the computer to lock and had to get the proctor to come unlock it... the fact that they have to drop the ASVAB to get people in is depressingly terrifying.
I’m 24, in good shape, have an asvab of 87, and passed the physical at meds. They denied me for a spinal fusion and I’m currently trying all the branches. I have a clearance letter now and am getting a waiver, will find out Monday if it’s approved or denied for the army
I managed to get in the Air Force with a ninth grade education because my ASVAB scores were so high, if I remember correctly, electrical mechanical and general, we’re all in the 80s and administrative was 45 because I was born 2 1/2 months premature and have a learning disability. They forced me to get a GED because they had to report that to command so they took me down to take a test and I had two of the highest scorers at that testing site. I worked around a bunch of people with bachelors and masters degree and I advised them on communications solutions. When I retired, I was able to go get my bachelors degree in two years. My last year in I was transitioning cell phones, and doing reports up to the wing and my captain asked me to write the report according to APA standard. I asked him what that was. He asked me if I’d been in college and I said no I have a ninth grade education and he was in shock. LOL
I worked with security forces at different times throughout my career and even lived in the same dorm with them when I was young. There were 2000 cops at Grand Forks to protect the nuclear weapons. They were crazy, but so was I. We went out in the field for an evade and allude exercise that the air crew have to do, and I was driving a couple of cops around. They got out of my.HMMWV and swore that they would never go anywhere with me again. LOL
After basic training, I went to Keesler Air Force Base and the wing leader ship were under investigation for prostituting young female airman so my first official parade was to retire the base commander who had been involved. Then I went to my next base and a few months after I got there they had a drug bust under the disguise of base cleanup right before Christmas but the hundred people that were there to clean up the base we’re actually under investigation and the cops and the Air Force OSI stepped out from behind the curtain. Something like half of the cop squad and got in trouble as the investigation continued, and one of the people I worked with in my branch was the main drug dealer as an airman first class. That’s how my career started. Lol
When I was at Keesler Air Force Base, I was assigned to the 13th squadron also known as animal house. They changed my assignment from Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, Florida to Shymia, Alaska, and people were telling me how horrible it was so I purposely failed out thinking they would just put me in a lesser electronic career field, but they fooled me and put me in supply for the next three years. I was awaiting further instructions between the schools and they made me the CQ at night time. My STA walks into the office one night after I’d already been upstairs to my room to have lunch and a bunch of my guys were smoking marijuana in one of the rooms. That’s the first place he wanted to go because it was known as the bay of pigs. When we went back up there, there was now a blanket that they were using to cover the smell by blocking the door, but they left a giant corner sticking out into the hallway so he knocks on the door.. when they finally open the door he immediately walked in and three guys snuck out right behind him because they’ve been standing against the wall. He catches the other five and brings them downstairs for security forces to come over and handcuff them until a patty wagon can come. My dormmates had already ordered pizza and it came so I was sitting there, feeding them pizza and giving them cigarettes before they had to be hauled off to jail. : )
On 4 July 1982, the 13th and 19th squadron had a bottle rocket fight between the dormitories. The 19th squad was where the combat controllers stayed at and we were fighting each other because that we would be out at formation and they would be sitting there getting ready to do the run with the log and we would make fun of them because we were stupid. Lol. The cops got called so we stopped our fight and all head and acted like we weren’t doing anything but that’s how fun things were back then.
Now I can't help but picture Cody at some point when they deliver a new mattress talking to his roommate 'Ooop, hang on, I gotta go take care of something.' and just waiting for the guys to drop it off and casually lugging that shit out to the balcony, then coming back to finish the conversation with his roommate.
I had to take the ASVAB twice, once at school and then again when I went to the MEPS center. I scored in the high 90s both times, and my best friend in school took it and had 99s across the board. He was approached by all branches of the military several times, and he declined.
The standards are always changing I was an army recruiter after the 1st gulf war and in that 3 years we took GED’s with an over 50 asvab once and just for a very short time. The same with CatIV under 32 asvab it lasted for just a few days.
Scored 95 in high school they said “son what do you want to do and where do you want to go” ended up in Germany pre 911. Got out 07 100% t&p. Best 8 years of my life
I had a guy with the last name of "High", this dude swore up and down he'd be a sniper.... took three tries just to qualify for basic rifle marksmanship. He had a habit of doing random dumb stuff that made us all wonder if he was *actually* high. But the creamdelaresistance was him mailing home _grenade fragments,_ the spoon, and a _BLASTING CAP._ The ISS could hear the Drill Sgt screaming at him over THAT one.
Got 98, went to MEPS. Wanted to go career so admitted I'd had childhood asthma (previously fat, 5+ years no inhaler). I didn't want to get a few years in then get the boot for lying. They sent me to a specialist for the asthma. I peeked at the documents on the ride back. "Signs of mild asthma". Chairforce refused to get me that far, so i was in for navy. Offered to change my assignment choices to do nuc sub tech, they wouldn't even try to get me a waiver. This was back during the 00s military downsizing. I look back and i probably dodged a bullet, but i still wonder what could of been. TLDR: the government looked at my butt hole and still turned me down.
In high school our sophomore, junior and senior year our school made us take the asvab test since a lot of kids in our town went to some branch of military. First year I got a 12. I answered every question B I believe maybe A. Jr year I actually tried and got 77. Then my senior year our counselor told all us seniors whoever got the highest score on the asvab test got lunch on them whatever we want. McDonald’s all the way to steak and lobster at a steakhouse. It didn’t matter if we ended up joining or not just get the highest score. Well I got a 92. Another guy got in our class got a 94 he did end up joining the military. Crazy thing 1-2 days later they was a marine recruiter came knocking at my door scared the 💩 out of my parents when they saw him and me. Apparently the recruiter who gave us the asvab test gave our score to every recruiter in our area for every branch but the coast guard.
When I was in Basic Training, my drill sergeant had us doing all sorts of cleaning duty that I personally decided, was a way to either bind our platoon together or drive us to the point of insanity. One of the ladies, and I us that word facetiously, asked the drill what she was supposed to use to get a particularly hard area of the latrine to get cleaned. The drill said, just use elbow grease. She spent three hours trying to find it.
I got a 92 and they slung take me because I had resolved medical problems and was in talk therapy during 2020- friend passed, sickness plus covid. I went to the navy’s psychiatrist and was approved. MEPs approved but they still didn’t let me in. I was going for nuclear engineering for the navy.
We had a guy that got pushed through the recruiter for Corpsman despite him scoring a 30 on his asfab back in 2013. Dude was remarkably unintelligent. So much so that our RDCs mad him our mascot. He had a knack for disappearing and I, as his rack mate, had to find him. Eventually he got recycled, in bootcamp mind you, and he got kicked out for wearing another recruits underwear. We all came to the conclusion that he was wearing them by mistake but it was necessary to get that boy out of the Navy.
@@jasoncole4706 recruiters don’t assign rates in the Navy, that’s the classifier at MEPS. and they can’t offer the rate without the qualifying scores. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but HMs are not intellectually elite.
4:07 After my active duty army service, I went into the ARNG, I went to intel analyst reserve course, and we had kid from CA National guard who got a waiver on his ASVAB to attend, cause he was only one available from his unit, cause his civilian job was as a dishwasher-SMH! This was 1997. At DLI, there was a Seaman Swallows 😅😅.
I took the ASVAB in a Navy recruiting office at 17, got a percentile score of 99 with a GT of 140. Went off to college instead, dropped out after 3 years [insert rant about the coomies], joined the NG for fun and was basically told "pick whatever job you want." So of course I picked the one with a $10,000 sign-on bonus (this was in 2012, so no $20k bonus for me) and a 9 month AIT. With PFC pay the whole time because I had "some college."
There was a special ed kid from my high school who graduated with a "Certificate of Completion" instead of a standard Diploma, he had to look long and hard but eventually found an Army Recruiting Station that was so far behind their quota that they got him a waiver with an ASVAB GT score of 11, part of his contract to join the Infantry barred him from Jump School, he would be limited in promotion to PFC (E3) and as such would be ineligible for re enlistment since his first enlistment would take him past the E3 Retention Control Point!
Scary to see this. We retired in 97/98 and during our 20 years in the Navy had seen many hard working knowledgeable people put out because they couldn’t maintain the weight standards. Now we shake our heads in wonder at the people we see in uniform at the Base Exchange. Somehow they also think they can disrespect their seniors. They think they have Constitutional Rights and those that don’t fit can spend a year or more on “legal” hold and manage to get discharged with full benefits for “service connected” drug abuse.
I remember I was just a few points from max on the raw score, and 122 on my GT. My time really sucked, because they sent me to an artillery unit full of certifiable idiots, and my 1SGT couldn't even read standard memoes without totally misunderstanding the meaning.
I had a dude that was a NYC school, like, IDK, fucking crossing guard but he worked for NYPD or some shit. He used to literally tell us how he was NYPD. Anyway, I was his squad leader. I was the SL that "fixed people." If you didn't learn to soldier from me, you were weren't learning to soldier. We found out, I shit you not, this dude (and I can't say kid because he was TEN FUCKING YEARS OLDER THAN ME), to the ASVAB five times when he miraculously passed on his last attempt. This is 2005 for him now, the Army isn't trying NOT to take people, and they didn't want him. Anyway, I got this dude about 3 months before we went back to Iraq for OIF 3. When I say that this guy was a hazard to every single one of us, I can not stress enough how much I'm not lying.
I scored pretty high on the “practice” ASVAB when I tried enlisting in the Marines. I couldn’t go because of eye problems. Now I’m too old, at 30, even if they were to allow for those situations. I always wanted to be a Marine but oh well.
My friend's husband has that issue with the air force. He's already having to recruit out of small town so the selection pull is low. One kid scored a 1. I didnt even know that was possible. Kid consistently was getting low scores to where they just ended up
I'm 30 and just enlisted. I got a 69 on the ASVAB (niiiiiice). I am going in as a 12N just because I wanted to do a job I have experience in and they were telling me that I should I use my score to get into the Cyber sector and I was absolutely against it, stating "I want 12N or 12B or I will walk" because they kept pushing that other stupid stuff on me. Now, as a 12N, I get such high respect because the units are miniscule and very tight knit, as well as being so specialized that even the 12B guys and gals are happy when the 12N's show up. Btw, a 12N is just an Army version of a Navy Seabee (CB).
I keep having visions of Martin Short on SNL… as part of a men’s synchronized swimming team explaining how he’s not a strong swimmer… wearing water wings… as a poster child for navy recruitment.
Keep in mind that the ASVAB is not an intelligence test. It is an aptitude test. I got a 94 and ended up a Supply warehouseman because in 1977, Supply was being computerized. The warehouse had a teletype printer. The only thing related to computer knowledge needed was how to put paper into the teletype. On the other hand, the USAF put me on just about every other additional duty possible that required a high ASVAB score whether it was Supply related or not..
When I joined the Marines in 1989, the minimum ASVAB score was for Infantry and the "low level" MOS's. The higher your ASVAB score, the more jobs you qualified for. It's sad to see what it has come to.
Navy basic training was not that difficult for me, but I did have one slightly stressful part. I was given the job of helping those who had low scores and struggled with classes. I was surprised at how low some of the ASVAB scores were and that many of those had trouble with simple things. I can't imagine how things are now that the standards have been lowered.
I’ve worked with people that every day was a new day. Didn’t remember anything learned yesterday. I always wondered how long it took them to tie their shoes.
Boot camp. Drill instructor said go in there and shave all the hair off your face. One guy came out with no eyebrows!!!! I said he's not going to make it! They kicked him out of the military he tried to sewer slide at basic. 🤦♂️
When I was in the Army (98-03), I heard from a friend about a guy in his unit that had taken the ASVAB twice and his combined score was like 54. His first time taking the test, he misspelled his own name.
I had 3 asvab waivers, 4 “jail or army”, and 7 homeless kids in my basic training. I ran into my drill sergeant from then and he even said. “I felt like I made too many short bus jokes in my career that karma had to come after me”
Jesus fucking Christ 😂
When was this?
@@dave2808 2010
What year was this? Cuz I was in basic during Bush's "troop surge" and I don't think it was that bad. there were a lot of criminal and tattoo waivers when I was going through tho
When I tried to enlist they wouldn't grant a waiver for a simple possession (wasn't even convicted). I was bummed as hell, cause I really wanted/needed a purpose.
Oh well.
With an ASVAB score of 78. I had the second lowest ASVAB that I am aware of to graduate from Nuclear Power school in the Navy.
Wow…. Not looking good….
I had an asvab score of 98.
The two other recruits who got their scores back when I did got an 11 and 13 respectively.
I will remember them until the day I die, because they were so confused about what that meant. They believed they were in the top 11-13 percentile until the recruiter came in and asked "did you fucks even spell your names right?"
Rickover is either crying or seething right now
I scored 80... and went infantry.
You made a better decision than I did.
You're kidding right? I scored 81 and was an 11b....
26, you're struggling with remembering to breathe.
For real, I got an 80 in JROTC. Absolute insanity because that was highschool
I was in JROTC too, Air Force flavor comin out of MD. Scored 72 and had a 112 GT score comin out of high school. This is insane, not surprising considering Oregon dropping all testing requirements for graduating their high schools for the next 2 or 3 years
holy shit i wasn't smart by any means i had 44 and I thought i was dumb. 26 aint even making the minimum. what the fuck?
I served with a dude that had to get an ASVAB waiver to get in. Nicest, hardest working dude you'd ever meet
But boy, there were days where I'm pretty sure someone else tied his boots and shaved his face for him.......
We had a guy like that in our Infantry platoon. ASVAB waiver, dumber than a box of rocks but man could he dig a fox hole!
IRL Darktide 40k Ogryn.
Those men used to carry our might before they decided test scores were more important than actual usefulness.
@@joeycampbell940 Hey say what you want but there is still a place for strong and dumb.
My brother was in the MARINES and met his wife who was also in the MARINES. She may have been smarter enough to pass the test but her personality is dumb. My whole family wished my brother never met her. All she does is sit on the couch playing on her computer. The only thing good is that at least she cooks but can't get off her lazy ass to clean the house. Both my brother and her are lazy because one summer my home town had to give them a warning to mow the lawn or they start getting fined for not doing so for so long. They have two kids but the oldest is autistic and was babied by Mommy so I know she's not doing anything with her life and the youngest I have a feeling she might struggle a bit as well. I love my brother but wish he pull his head out of his ass
Scored a 90 the first time, with four buddies, to cut school (its was boring AF). The Navy guy who was proctor said we all cheated, shared our answers, and told us we needed to reschedule the test separately. Scheduled mine a week later, had the whole room to myself, with an Army guy and a civie watching me.
Scored a 92. Went to be an MP.
All my buddies scored better on their separate tastings. Not one of us studied anything, it was pretty much straight forward... 3 went USMC infantry, one went Navy to work nukes.
Scoring a 30 is pretty pathetic...
yeah 30 is for folks doing stuff like mail handling and whatnot
My lowest section was an 85 in administrative, everything else was above a 92, and I got a crew chief contract. Jokes on them, I was assigned to the 16th, working on gunships as a 21 year old was the sickest part of my life at that point.
You sound like the most ass fuck guy ever scoring a 30 is pathetic? Not everyone grows up with mommy and daddy’s support and good school some of us are left on our own and have to work hard to get to your level because we weren’t spoiled like you. I scored and 31 my first time studied extremely hard took it again and got a 88 unlike you I actually know what it’s like to come from nothing and work hard to get something unlike your ass who was spoon fed your whole life and then talks down about others not meeting your standard because you were given an easy life
What's on an asvab anyway? Which branch has the highest minimum requirement? Air Force?
lol I scored a 38, didn’t pay attention in school now as I’m older I realize how easy the asvab recently I studied and scored a 57.
Raising the bar by lowering the standard. Get count dankula on soon.
Please
Have a Brit show - Get Dank and Sargon.
I’m surprised he hasn’t been put on here.
i maxed my asvab out for the air force, so they basically handed me a HUGE book at denver meps and said "pick something." i ended up doing satellite communications engineering, and worked with raytheon and lockheed on some seriously cool new equipment (at the time 25 years ago).
methinks the numbers are so low because the younger generations are doing 2 things. 1) seeing how vets are treated from lots of social media exposure, and 2) deciding that dying fighting overseas for people they dont know isn't worth the crappy paycheck the military pays. when i was active, enlisted up through e5 qualified for FOOD STAMPS........................... you aren't talking someone into fighting in another country when they have to use government assistance to eat.
i took asvab for giggles in high school, had no intention of joining. mostly for that 2nd reason, dieing for stupid elderly beaurocrats wasnt isn't acceptable to me. i knew the pay wasnt great but figured living on barracks and other military assistance would make it work out ok, didn't realize it was actually that bad
Same thing happened to me, was Army though. They handed me what looked like a NYC phone book and said to pick something. I picked 32c. Sadly, I never got to finish basic due to a bad knee from a car accident my Jr year of hs.
I agree with why the numbers are low. I'm all for joining the military if America itself is being invaded or threatened. But I'm not going to go fight in a random country in the middle east as part of a proxy war.
To be fair, it depends on your bah and if you have a family. A single person makes way more than food stamps allow.
Scoring low on the asvab to avoid serving doesn't make sense as an excuse. We're not drafting, its volunteer. They don't have to join if they don't want to. Schools have just either dumbed down the requirements to graduate, or students just aren't paying any attention in classes and graduating anyway - so they really can't get better scores on the asvab. If they're actually thinking about any of those things you mention they just wouldn't go to the recruiting office to begin with.
Brandon "am I having a stroke"
every single one of those guys missed the opportunity to say "no but seaman Kum was"
In 2009 I was denied by the Army, Marines, and Navy with an AFQT of 87 (89 when I retook it), no criminal history, in good shape, but had dropped out of highschool so I only had a GED.
2024: "Well I suppose as long as they wrote their name *somewhere* on the asvab it is valid."
Last spring they were taking people with no HS diploma, no GED, and had a minimum of 20 on the ASVAB. Even at the height of the GWOT, you better have a HS diploma before going to the recruiter. GEDs not accepted.
Don't you mean making an X somewhere on the form?
Guard had a GED program specifically for that problem.. 2 weeks on a base with some crackshot teachers. 👌 this was 2010. In uniform, reciting the soldiers creed everyday. And ya got paid. Diploma thing is retarded.. lotta bright ppl drop out
Joined the Army in 2002, swore in early 2003, was in basic by May. No HS diploma and just a GED. Didn’t even need to waiver for it. I did however have to waiver because I had a Curfew Violation on my record from when I was 16 and was arrested at a local Denny’s for being out with my 22 year old brother at the time.
Yeah same for me. 2010 ish. GED so no marines for me. But just graduated army infantry a month ago. Not complaining. We made it eventually 🤷🏻♂️👏🏼
In the Navy! Yes, you can sail the seven seas!
In the Navy! Yes, you can come on PSP's!
Omg I lost my shit! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's been a solid 15 minutes and I'm still laughing at this. I haven't laughed this hard in years so thank you very much!
@@mechaman7818 well done!
Was half expecting Nick to tell the 11b grenade story again, but yeah a guy not drinking water for fear of getting dehydrated is dumber.
I had a girl at BMT flag all of us with her "rifle" (it was just a training weapon, thankfully) twice. We were doing tactical columns. She was in the right column and was right-handed. I told her to switch columns since she's right handed so her "rifle" would be pointed out at potential threats. She argued that she wanted to stay with her friends, and she would be able to raise her rifle to face the threat quick enough. She demonstrated by raising it at my column and spinning (and flagging) half the damn flight to do so. She did this 2 more times to prove how fast she could do it and never noticed anything wrong.
I'm glad she's in the Air Force and doesn't have to deal with live firearms too much. Zero comprehension of gun safety.
Got one even better. In 2010 I was in Bagram and kept getting flagged by a SrA with her loaded M-16. Every time she took it off her back to put into the weapons rack she'd flag me and the entire clamshell tent we were working in. I've asked he to knock it off multiple times and got nothing but attitude. So one day she does it in front of our MSgt and I ask him to tell her to stop flagging me. She grabs her M-16 by the grip with one hand and asks "What? Like this?" - pointing the barrel directly at me and bouncing it up and down. A loaded M-16. The MSgt laughed it off and told her to stop. Me being chairforce, I was too much of a wuss to do anything about it besides stand there pissed off.
@@anothernewaccount1657what did you do as your job? I usually exaggerated if I noticed that, jump out of the way and yell at them, make a scene. If they do it again, as quick as possible grab the barrel and yell at them.
We had a guy do that in Al Asad and we took his rifle and slapped him. Granted, I was MX in AFSOC and most of us had guns back home so we took that shit seriously.
I mean, you can respond to threats from the right column as a righty, but it takes handling weapons on a regular basis to do it safely and proficiently
@@anothernewaccount1657Define "loaded" though. Because in my Air Force experience nobody walks around with a chambered round in their M-16s. After Armory issue it was always Bolt Forward, Hammer Down, then Insert Loaded Magazine. "Rack Safe" as the Delta Boys in Blackhawk Down called it.
@@Ryan_Christopher On one hand I get your point, and the way we carried was in yellow status: full mag but no round in the chamber... but on the other hand that doesn't give you a lot of comfort (or it didn't for me anyways) when someone's directly pointing at you with their hand on the grip.
I never served but over the course of the various jobs I've held I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. People that are actually above average intelligence when they choose to be, but they can turn it off and refuse to use their brains for work. Some of these people use chemicals to do it by showing up drunk or high but some are just able to be stupid at will. You engage them in conversation about a complex topic and they show themselves to be quick on the uptake with interesting thoughts or solutions. But ask them to do their job and they refuse to apply more than the absolute minimum mental effort to not get fired, if that.
People of above-average intelligence need to be stimulated in order to take interest in the job, and aren't good at drudgery, but give them a crisis and watch them turn on.
Pay me a liveable fucking wage then
Yep, that's me. I drove my managers at Walmart crazy because I dared to show *initiative* and critical thinking. I quickly learned that they wanted a machines, not people and they value employees as such.
@@Legitpenguins99That's why I like machining. Lots of problem solving. Problem is 90% of available machining jobs pay like shit thanks to globalism, and the 10% that actually pay well are so sought after you would be lucky to get them with 20 years of experience.
I did show drive and initiative in my work and you know what that got me, more work! No pay raise to compensate, but enough work for three people or so and a pat on the back. Mind you, I'm not even 20 and barely out of high school. That's when my mom took me aside, we talked, and a few things really started to click. These jobs don't want employees, we're just numbers to them. What they want is the job to be done, at the least possible expense.
No more going above and beyond, no more staying late. Just do the job I was hired to do, collect my check, go home. If you don't care about me, why should I care about you? I want to care, I want to love my job, but no one gives me a reason to.
Scored a 74 while hungover how can people score that low
This generation is shockingly stupid.
at a VA mental health eval, i scored an IQ of 129 after 3 days of sleep deprivation. google what THAT crap does to your score. it's basically like a bad hangover!
Hungover is a broad statement
Don't Google the average iq of African nations.
California schools
I saw a guy in 2004 at MEPS who scored a 12 on his ASVAB (this was his second attempt). He obviously didn't get in as the minimum was around 33-35 as I recall.
There was a guy in my BCT company who everyone assumed had to have gotten an ASVAB waiver. The guy was seriously unable to read a room and had zero common sense. He was messing up so frequently that eventually the Drill Sergeants stopped punishing everyone for his mistakes as it didn't do any good (he couldn't learn and we couldn't peer pressure him into "getting smarter"). One of his typical incidents was walking up to the battalion commander in the field (he had stopped by to touch base with the company CO), interrupting their private meeting, saluting both of them, and reporting that "the latrines are out of toilet paper." The CO thanked him for the information, directed him to inform the 1SG that the CO had been notified about the situation, and he did it. (The guy seriously told on himself to the 1SG and was surprised when he got the crap smoked out of him for jumping the chain of command.) That was a minor issue compared to some of the stunts he pulled but it's short and easy to relate.
We had a guy interrupt the Battalion Commander once to ask him to borrow money while he was talking to the guy's Company Commander. Even funnier, when the Bn Cdr asked him if he knew who he was, he said no, even though the LTC was literally standing next to his Command photo in the lobby. Idiot.
No child left behind
No recruit left behind
Seaman Kum sitting at home watching Unsubscribe. "Damn it. Now I know why all my mattresses kept disappearing.
Seaman Kum. That has to be impossible. Lol
i knew a Seaman Stains that was training nextdoor to my unit years ago
@@ghomerhust , hilarious !
There's worse. There was a racing driver named Dick Seaman. No, I'm not joking. He never served in the military, but with a name like that, I wouldn't want to
@@filmandfirearms , thats too much to take, lol. If he was introduced to a group of people, I’d be the first to lol !
No, in 2000, I was in Army stationed at DLI, and there was a Seaman Swallows in class with me. 😅😅
Dumbest thing I've ever seen in the military...
Onboard a gator freighter in the middle of a hurricane, ship's rolling like no one had seen, 15~20 each way with some freaky pitching that was like an express elevator to hell every 30 to 45 seconds. The p-way to the galley was a-beam (length wise) to the ship, and there were a couple vending machines that were bolted to the deck via angle brackets. Well after about an hour or so, one of the soda machines broke loose and started causing havoc, as you can imagine. So, in time with the rolling of the ship this vending machine would fly by the hatchway, crashing into things all along the way, including a fire extinguisher that got ruptured and shot like a damned rocket through the p-way. We got the hatches closed save for one, since this was in the aft of the galley we could still get out the forward part of the galley, that one hatch was our entertainment until the DC gang came along and figure out how to stop this thing.
Well along comes a Marine that thinks he's going to be the main character of this little story, and he kinda was but not in the way he thought. He was a brick shithouse of a Marine, and like most infantry grunts thought himself indestructible believing that "God has a hardon for Marines". Well, he decided to step into that p-way to try and stop that vending machine. You can imagine what happened next, the rest of us Squids and Devil Dogs were like that scene from Gremlins in the bar when the one went flying across the bar from the ceiling fan. Yeah, we watch that machine hit the dude, then we saw the dude and the vending machine disappear down the starboard side of the p-way. Dumbest thing I ever saw, but the second dumbest is when some of us decided to do a joint-service effort to help the dude. Kinda just happened, but a couple of us Squids, including myself, and a couple Devil Dogs jumped out and chased that damned machine down the p-way when it came back and pinned it against the far port bulkhead. It took about 12 of us all stacked against the damned thing to keep it from going mobile again.
DC gang showed up and all we could do is yell at them to get a f&*cking strap to hold this goddamned machine and get medical for the dude that got pancaked against the starboard bulkhead. One of the DC gang tried to yell at us for trying to stop a piece of loose gear during rough seas and, not sure where this Gunny came from, yelled back "They didn't, that dumb f&*ck down there did and they are trying to keep his ass from becoming part of the bulkhead!" I love that Gunny, he never ceased to amaze me during the deployment and that day, on our way back to Norfolk after the long Med Cuise, he got one more chance to be the ultimate Gunny.
Oh and yes, trying to eat chow during that was entertaining to say the least, try holding on to the chair with your legs, that's not only bolted to the deck but part of the table, and hold your tray and drink with one hand and eat with the other. That storm was fun and that poor dumbass Marine will never again try to be the main character again I suppose.
LST’s baby!
@@TheIrishAmish LHA in this case
Ya know, even dumb animals size up stuff and say na that's bigger than me and get out of its way. This is what we call crazier than you are dumb and it's dangerous.
I took the ASVAB in high school because they were offering free breakfast, and we got to go home early. I basically skipped the English section, and I still got a 68. My line scores to be a mechanic were high enough for the job I wanted, so I didn't retake it to sign up. After being in for 8 years, fresh back from deployment, I went into recruiting and had to retake the ASVAB to get a higher score. I went thought the practice once, went to MEPS and got a 98.
Ask my wife whats wrong with the military and her response: the pay is shit, benefits are meh, complete jackasses in charge who all think the military should be run 1000 different ways. She says the military needs to sort itself out if they ever want to improve retention.
To be fair cursive is pointless skill to know coming from one who can read and write cursive. Outside of signature you really don’t need it
I love writing in cursive. Also recruiters do not help the military standard. They will take anyone just to get a check.
Cursive thing is crazy. I was unfortunate enough that I was never taught it. The stupid education system will randomly decide like every decade "Oh we don't need to teach cursive!" Skip a year and then decide they want to start teaching cursive again.
Writing in cursive is really like the worst possible argument to use here. I mean I wouldn't even necessarily disagree, but trying to use "she's like the only person there who can write in cursive" is like saying "can you believe she's the only person there who knows how to properly spike a canon?!" That's just not a thing people need to know anymore.
Hell, I literally use fountain pens as my main method of writing and even I don't use formal cursive. Most "casual cursive" is an improvised mix of what we'd think of as cursive and print lettering that each individual sorta gets their own style for. Formalized cursive is more of the posh, gussied up style that people go out of their way to write cleanly.
Just to be clear, this was all my wife's personal take on it. You have a right to disagree
My niece unfortunately score below minimum on ASVAB last year because she couldn’t do things like long division or multiplication because the school never taught her. Instead this Common Core crap didn’t teach them the way to get the proper answer, just some stupid magic way of getting something close. I’m scared for the future because what kids are not taught today.
I dropped out right before Common Core got implemented and I’m glad for it. No Child Left Behind wasn’t good but at least I learned long division and multiplication, I do fear for the World and the generations that follow after I’m gone.
Jesus. I have to take a look at how the hell kids are being taught today.
Why didnt you teach her that then? And you are a dirty liar, because multiplication is taught in third grade; so your niece is just stupid
This administration has been a disaster for the military. So many standards like the ASVAB and fitness standards being lowered.
theyre doing it in order to get more people QUALIFIED. the administration has nothing to do with it. the problem is the lower quality of people actually going in for the testing. too many are failing. but, with recruitment numbers SO LOW, if they want to keep things running, they have to lower the standards so those who were below the cut off could still enlist. it's either that or start a draft, which isnt going to fly when we're not in open war.
i think it's a 2 prong problem. potential recruits are seeing how bad vets are being treated after leaving service (my va battles have been over 20 years and in court currently), and the pay is still abysmal compared to other high risk jobs or high skill jobs. my job was satellite communications engineering. i qualified for food stamps while working on multi million dollar equipment. my same exact job in the private sector was making 6 figures 25 years ago.
All their side does is lower standards and drag society down to their retarded level.
What else would you expect of the people who subscribe to the economic equivalent of flat earth theory?
You can’t have quality until you first have sufficient quantity.
You’ll never get better quality by letting in the lowest common denominators of the country.
We had a guy in my basic training, back in the late 90s, that wasn't all there. He was national guard and came in as a "Bath and laundry specialist" because he was told they would never go to war. When we informed him that baths and laundry are still needed in combat zones, he broke down crying.
Got an 86 right out of high school, and rushed through it. I’m really not in understanding how some of those low scores are possible, unless you intentionally blow the test.
When I did RA for a month, I turned away about a dozen people from the Mariner Corps. Each one scored below 20 on the Pre-ASVAB test. I tried to score that low on my own, and I still scored in the thirties.
I got pulled in for mandatory service back in the day (Germany btw), all tests were good but I failed the piss test, which I wanted to at the time. But there was a guy that stood out to me, shaved head, dressed in a bomber jacket, etc. After I failed the piss test I sat outside smoking, saw him walk out and he looked devastated. Asked him what happened and he told me and I quote "Did you have to do the test with the colors and shapes?". Apparently they made him do a 4th grade tier test because he was that dense. To this day I still wonder what happened to him.
"Seaman Kum came on my psp"
-Cody x,D
94 was my score testing for the Air Force and had my choice of jobs. Picked Flight Simulators that turned into a great career. Best move I ever made and even better….I get thanked for my service. Turns out that means a lot. Everyone should give the Military some thought.
I have legitimately had the same patient presentation, complete with that same excuse.
Truly, we forever see the proof of 'You can't treat stupid, but you can sedate it.'
"Seaman Kum came on my PSP" 😂😂😂
another issue is that Meps has a new system thats way better at finding you medical history. felt depressed when your first girlfriend cheated on you in highschool and got therapy for your depression denied, adhd denied, a slight asthma that went away when you stopped being a fat kid denied.
My son wants to be a pilot and I told him if he ever feels like he needs to talk to someone, just suppress everything because your temporary sadness can destroy your life. (Seriously, I said just talk to me and his mom).
Retired Navy HMC Here (FMF). Back in the 80’s, the AFQT standard was 50 or higher for all services. A high school graduate or 11S (someone who’s a senior and expected to graduate) could get in the Navy with a 35 if he received an NRD waiver (Navy Recruiting District). Juniors and drop outs had to score a minimum of 45. Most of the low scorers went in without job guarantees and had to “strike” for a rating after 12 months in service. A 26 AFQT didn’t even qualify for an NRC waiver (Navy Recruiting Command).
The Chair Force and Marines have always required higher AFQT scores. Apparently you need to be smart to fly a desk or eat crayons. (Just kidding, I love my Devil Dog brothers)
I tested out of high school early at age 17 to join the Army. I scored top 2% in the nation. After I took the ASVAB, one of my Drill Sergeants was yelling at me. He said, "What in the fuck are you doing here, Private!?". I inquired, "Did I score poorly, Drill Sergeant?", to which he yelled, "You scored top 2%! You need to be a doctor, or scientist!". I mistook his meaning to be he was challenging me like smart people can't hack it in the Army. Fortunately, I'm well-made physically, so I excelled as a 13B. It wasn't until later that I realized that DS wasn't challenging me. He literally meant I would be a much better asset to society outside of the military rather than risking getting blown up on a battlefield as a teenager. I lived through Desert Storm, and I don't regret joining the military. However, being illegally used as a guinea pig for experimental drugs that have had lifelong detrimental effects on my body very much soured the experience.
I’ll pray for you bro.
Everyone needs to repent and believe the gospel to escape hell.
@@korndogz69 I don’t believe you
@@gm28jtr Your belief, or non-belief is irrelevant. Doesn't alter the fact it's true.
@@korndogz69 I’ll rephrase. You’re lying.
@@gm28jtr Still don't care what you think. You, and what you believe are completely irrelevant.
I joined the Army in 2007. We had a guy in basic that was able to reassemble his M16 with the BCG backwards. The only reason I know that he did this was when we were at the range and ask the Drill Sargent why he was not able to camber a round.
What?
@@schaddenkorp6977 No seriously, took me a few to put BCG and bolt carrier group together. But there's no way that thing came back together like that 😂
@@Dayyum-j8i bro I can barely understand you, are you talking about the glasses they give you in basic?
@schaddenkorp6977 Nah man the bolt carrier group. The part you insert with the charging handle when your done cleaning.
@schaddenkorp6977 You've seen it, I may be doing a bad job explaining
When I was in MEPS, there was a Masengil that was joining the Navy. "Seaman Masengil"😂
I am genuinely fearful of the idea of a Chief in the Navy who scored a 28 on the ASVAB
@@ManiaMac1613 don’t worry…they’re mostly chiefing ppl that scored 16
The US military isn't alone in this, nearly every western military has the same problem. I recently saw a report from the Canadian military saying that, in order to help them only take the best, they're getting rid of their version of the ASVAB. So, according to them, in order to make sure they only take the best, they're getting rid of the thing designed to help them determine who is the best
Canada is in bad shape. Anecdotally, I have a cousin who was in "special" classes all the way through school. At 27 she decided she was joining with her boyfriend (who is also lower end of intelligence spectrum). I said "OK sure, good luck". To my utter shock they were both accepted. IMO neither of them should be within a country mile of combat. Small consolation is that she was put in logistics and he motorpool as far as I'm aware (not that that's great either).
Bunker Branding we need a new t-shirt "Seaman Kum Came on my PSP"
Another story. At MEPS I took my test. Got a 62 overall. Not great. (Laziness in school). I felt bad. I wanted to hit 70 at least. Anyway I’m feeling down and this kid sits near me. We start talking “man, got a 62. I’m a fucking idiot.” “What did you get?”
“A 8”. Army recruiter came over and was like “we can waiver that son, welcome to the army”
Navy recruiter.
At one point in 2024 we were taking ASVAB scores of 10 and up. Even raised body fat percentage to 32% males and 36% females. I have kids scoring single digits after repeated attempts. I’ve got horror stories. BUT, we’re gonna follow the standards and write the contracts. Whatever I have to do to go home and see my family.
Of course…Genesis is not helping.
Seaman kum came on my psp - donut operator 2024😂😂😂
I love how Cody's story unfolded. 10/10
When I was in the recruiter’s office, filling out background paperwork, I saw a kid come in and beat random chance on the practice test. 4 possible answers per question, and he got a 17/100. Just answering “A” would’ve probably given him a 25/100
I am a dumb hillbilly from Northeast Tennessee and took the ASVAB in 1997 before joining the Army. I aced the test and thought it was a joke of a test.
If you can't ace the asvab test, you shouldn't be allowed to graduate high-school.
You hillbillies don’t fool this San Francisco private school kid. I know you guys have a couple brain cells underneath those straw hats lol
I remember back in '94 when i took the asvab the minimum for infantry was 32, one guy in my group got an 18.
Funny thing about the asvab, I had a composite average of 120 and I was in the 89th percentile, I was qualified for almost 3 pages worth of MOS’s. Then I learned I was colorblind after going to MEPs and my list of jobs shortened to like 10. It went from “do you wanna work with the most advanced weapons known to man” to “do you wanna be a cook or infantry?”
I'm slightly red/green colorblind. I can seen the dot colors but can't sort the characters. I was able to pass the FALANT test (red, green, white colored lights) and ended up in an electronic rating, but I know the feeling.
I don't know how colorblindness would affect your ability to use a computer, but if you're red-green colorblind, you would in theory be better at seeing through camouflage and thus be better at infantry.
Did the asvab at 31. Never seen it before. Never studied. Drifting in and out of sleeping.
96.
AF recruiter basically told me i could pick anything.
"Seaman Kum came on my PSP" should repace "wacker" at the end of Donut's videos.
OMG! Cody for the WIN!!! 🤣
Man, if standards have sunk that low, I wonder what the requirements for the Naval Nuclear Power program are now. I think it was 90 or so when I joined. When I was going through Power School some of those guys weren't all that bright, either. Most of those were gone by the time I got to the fleet, but they still qualified to get in.
Scored well above 90. Spent most of my childhood at an aviation museum idolizing the WWII pilots. I just felt like the military didnt "need" me. Military didnt seem to offer much that the private sector didnt. Maybe if my eyes were good enough i would have chosen different. I am very thankful for those that served and work for a vet, but i don't regret not joining.
As someone that came out from basic training. Yes. There were people in my company that were....... special. And my MOS is one of the semi high ones. They 100% "help" passing
Navy nuke tech, energy not bombs, have missed the enlisted mark for like 3 year, we go a massive manning issue in the nuclear community coming in the few years. Lot of reasons but a big one ive been hearing is how they mistreated a lot of sailors during c*vid basically putting them in solitary isolation and forgetting to feed them and preventing them from getting food.
Has to be my favorite story I've heard. Hahahahaha these fellas are gold.
Back in '82 had a recruit in formation to go to boot camp graduation say out of the side of his mouth "Drill Instructors are rocks. " Poor kid got run through by not only my platoon's Drill Instructors but the rest of the company's DI's. MAJOR mop session trying to dry the squad bay's quarter deck.
Bro I remember almost an entire company dedicated to ASVAB waivers for the very limited amount of time I was in Army BCT
What a HUGE shock. I scored a 98 in 1977.
I got an 88 and fell asleep for long enough during the test for the computer to lock and had to get the proctor to come unlock it... the fact that they have to drop the ASVAB to get people in is depressingly terrifying.
Yeah.... which branch are you? Just curious.
@@bigdatapimp it’s a timed test
I’m 24, in good shape, have an asvab of 87, and passed the physical at meds. They denied me for a spinal fusion and I’m currently trying all the branches. I have a clearance letter now and am getting a waiver, will find out Monday if it’s approved or denied for the army
I managed to get in the Air Force with a ninth grade education because my ASVAB scores were so high, if I remember correctly, electrical mechanical and general, we’re all in the 80s and administrative was 45 because I was born 2 1/2 months premature and have a learning disability. They forced me to get a GED because they had to report that to command so they took me down to take a test and I had two of the highest scorers at that testing site. I worked around a bunch of people with bachelors and masters degree and I advised them on communications solutions. When I retired, I was able to go get my bachelors degree in two years. My last year in I was transitioning cell phones, and doing reports up to the wing and my captain asked me to write the report according to APA standard. I asked him what that was. He asked me if I’d been in college and I said no I have a ninth grade education and he was in shock. LOL
I worked with security forces at different times throughout my career and even lived in the same dorm with them when I was young. There were 2000 cops at Grand Forks to protect the nuclear weapons. They were crazy, but so was I. We went out in the field for an evade and allude exercise that the air crew have to do, and I was driving a couple of cops around. They got out of my.HMMWV and swore that they would never go anywhere with me again. LOL
After basic training, I went to Keesler Air Force Base and the wing leader ship were under investigation for prostituting young female airman so my first official parade was to retire the base commander who had been involved. Then I went to my next base and a few months after I got there they had a drug bust under the disguise of base cleanup right before Christmas but the hundred people that were there to clean up the base we’re actually under investigation and the cops and the Air Force OSI stepped out from behind the curtain. Something like half of the cop squad and got in trouble as the investigation continued, and one of the people I worked with in my branch was the main drug dealer as an airman first class. That’s how my career started. Lol
When I was at Keesler Air Force Base, I was assigned to the 13th squadron also known as animal house. They changed my assignment from Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, Florida to Shymia, Alaska, and people were telling me how horrible it was so I purposely failed out thinking they would just put me in a lesser electronic career field, but they fooled me and put me in supply for the next three years. I was awaiting further instructions between the schools and they made me the CQ at night time. My STA walks into the office one night after I’d already been upstairs to my room to have lunch and a bunch of my guys were smoking marijuana in one of the rooms. That’s the first place he wanted to go because it was known as the bay of pigs. When we went back up there, there was now a blanket that they were using to cover the smell by blocking the door, but they left a giant corner sticking out into the hallway so he knocks on the door.. when they finally open the door he immediately walked in and three guys snuck out right behind him because they’ve been standing against the wall. He catches the other five and brings them downstairs for security forces to come over and handcuff them until a patty wagon can come. My dormmates had already ordered pizza and it came so I was sitting there, feeding them pizza and giving them cigarettes before they had to be hauled off to jail. : )
On 4 July 1982, the 13th and 19th squadron had a bottle rocket fight between the dormitories. The 19th squad was where the combat controllers stayed at and we were fighting each other because that we would be out at formation and they would be sitting there getting ready to do the run with the log and we would make fun of them because we were stupid. Lol. The cops got called so we stopped our fight and all head and acted like we weren’t doing anything but that’s how fun things were back then.
Now I can't help but picture Cody at some point when they deliver a new mattress talking to his roommate 'Ooop, hang on, I gotta go take care of something.' and just waiting for the guys to drop it off and casually lugging that shit out to the balcony, then coming back to finish the conversation with his roommate.
we took the ASVAB in high school and while i didn’t go into the military, i scored a 72 which was one of the higher scores in my class.
I had to take the ASVAB twice, once at school and then again when I went to the MEPS center. I scored in the high 90s both times, and my best friend in school took it and had 99s across the board. He was approached by all branches of the military several times, and he declined.
I had an asvab of 32. But haveing Dyslexia made tests a pain.
so glad my recruiter actually cared of his recruits and made them earn their way in
The standards are always changing I was an army recruiter after the 1st gulf war and in that 3 years we took GED’s with an over 50 asvab once and just for a very short time. The same with CatIV under 32 asvab it lasted for just a few days.
with zero prep, i took the asvab in 10th grade, scored a 68 with a gt of 111
i didnt even try
Scored 95 in high school they said “son what do you want to do and where do you want to go” ended up in Germany pre 911. Got out 07 100% t&p. Best 8 years of my life
I had a guy with the last name of "High", this dude swore up and down he'd be a sniper.... took three tries just to qualify for basic rifle marksmanship. He had a habit of doing random dumb stuff that made us all wonder if he was *actually* high. But the creamdelaresistance was him mailing home _grenade fragments,_ the spoon, and a _BLASTING CAP._ The ISS could hear the Drill Sgt screaming at him over THAT one.
Got 98, went to MEPS. Wanted to go career so admitted I'd had childhood asthma (previously fat, 5+ years no inhaler). I didn't want to get a few years in then get the boot for lying. They sent me to a specialist for the asthma. I peeked at the documents on the ride back. "Signs of mild asthma".
Chairforce refused to get me that far, so i was in for navy. Offered to change my assignment choices to do nuc sub tech, they wouldn't even try to get me a waiver.
This was back during the 00s military downsizing. I look back and i probably dodged a bullet, but i still wonder what could of been.
TLDR: the government looked at my butt hole and still turned me down.
Scored a 93 with a 03/security forces contract. Changed it to 1812, M1A1 tank crewman on my return to Pendleton in late 06, height of the Surge.
In high school our sophomore, junior and senior year our school made us take the asvab test since a lot of kids in our town went to some branch of military. First year I got a 12. I answered every question B I believe maybe A. Jr year I actually tried and got 77. Then my senior year our counselor told all us seniors whoever got the highest score on the asvab test got lunch on them whatever we want. McDonald’s all the way to steak and lobster at a steakhouse. It didn’t matter if we ended up joining or not just get the highest score. Well I got a 92. Another guy got in our class got a 94 he did end up joining the military. Crazy thing 1-2 days later they was a marine recruiter came knocking at my door scared the 💩 out of my parents when they saw him and me. Apparently the recruiter who gave us the asvab test gave our score to every recruiter in our area for every branch but the coast guard.
When I was in Basic Training, my drill sergeant had us doing all sorts of cleaning duty that I personally decided, was a way to either bind our platoon together or drive us to the point of insanity. One of the ladies, and I us that word facetiously, asked the drill what she was supposed to use to get a particularly hard area of the latrine to get cleaned. The drill said, just use elbow grease. She spent three hours trying to find it.
I don’t recall my ASVAB…. I thought I bombed the NFQT, till I overheard it being enthusiastically discussed.
I got a 92 and they slung take me because I had resolved medical problems and was in talk therapy during 2020- friend passed, sickness plus covid. I went to the navy’s psychiatrist and was approved. MEPs approved but they still didn’t let me in. I was going for nuclear engineering for the navy.
If they get that ASVAB score requirement any lower they're gonna go from Special forces to "Special" forces 😂
@@hectorzero8545 🤣
We had a guy that got pushed through the recruiter for Corpsman despite him scoring a 30 on his asfab back in 2013. Dude was remarkably unintelligent. So much so that our RDCs mad him our mascot. He had a knack for disappearing and I, as his rack mate, had to find him. Eventually he got recycled, in bootcamp mind you, and he got kicked out for wearing another recruits underwear.
We all came to the conclusion that he was wearing them by mistake but it was necessary to get that boy out of the Navy.
@@jasoncole4706 recruiters don’t assign rates in the Navy, that’s the classifier at MEPS. and they can’t offer the rate without the qualifying scores. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but HMs are not intellectually elite.
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When Donut actually talks... it's gold.
4:07 After my active duty army service, I went into the ARNG, I went to intel analyst reserve course, and we had kid from CA National guard who got a waiver on his ASVAB to attend, cause he was only one available from his unit, cause his civilian job was as a dishwasher-SMH! This was 1997.
At DLI, there was a Seaman Swallows 😅😅.
I took the ASVAB in a Navy recruiting office at 17, got a percentile score of 99 with a GT of 140. Went off to college instead, dropped out after 3 years [insert rant about the coomies], joined the NG for fun and was basically told "pick whatever job you want."
So of course I picked the one with a $10,000 sign-on bonus (this was in 2012, so no $20k bonus for me) and a 9 month AIT. With PFC pay the whole time because I had "some college."
There was a special ed kid from my high school who graduated with a "Certificate of Completion" instead of a standard Diploma, he had to look long and hard but eventually found an Army Recruiting Station that was so far behind their quota that they got him a waiver with an ASVAB GT score of 11, part of his contract to join the Infantry barred him from Jump School, he would be limited in promotion to PFC (E3) and as such would be ineligible for re enlistment since his first enlistment would take him past the E3 Retention Control Point!
Scary to see this. We retired in 97/98 and during our 20 years in the Navy had seen many hard working knowledgeable people put out because they couldn’t maintain the weight standards. Now we shake our heads in wonder at the people we see in uniform at the Base Exchange. Somehow they also think they can disrespect their seniors. They think they have Constitutional Rights and those that don’t fit can spend a year or more on “legal” hold and manage to get discharged with full benefits for “service connected” drug abuse.
I remember I was just a few points from max on the raw score, and 122 on my GT. My time really sucked, because they sent me to an artillery unit full of certifiable idiots, and my 1SGT couldn't even read standard memoes without totally misunderstanding the meaning.
we had a ex navy reenlisted in the army, he inserted a loaded magazine..upside down and backwards...by hammering it on concrete. He also had 15 kids.
I had a dude that was a NYC school, like, IDK, fucking crossing guard but he worked for NYPD or some shit. He used to literally tell us how he was NYPD. Anyway, I was his squad leader. I was the SL that "fixed people." If you didn't learn to soldier from me, you were weren't learning to soldier. We found out, I shit you not, this dude (and I can't say kid because he was TEN FUCKING YEARS OLDER THAN ME), to the ASVAB five times when he miraculously passed on his last attempt. This is 2005 for him now, the Army isn't trying NOT to take people, and they didn't want him. Anyway, I got this dude about 3 months before we went back to Iraq for OIF 3. When I say that this guy was a hazard to every single one of us, I can not stress enough how much I'm not lying.
I scored pretty high on the “practice” ASVAB when I tried enlisting in the Marines. I couldn’t go because of eye problems. Now I’m too old, at 30, even if they were to allow for those situations. I always wanted to be a Marine but oh well.
My friend's husband has that issue with the air force. He's already having to recruit out of small town so the selection pull is low. One kid scored a 1. I didnt even know that was possible. Kid consistently was getting low scores to where they just ended up
I'm 30 and just enlisted. I got a 69 on the ASVAB (niiiiiice). I am going in as a 12N just because I wanted to do a job I have experience in and they were telling me that I should I use my score to get into the Cyber sector and I was absolutely against it, stating "I want 12N or 12B or I will walk" because they kept pushing that other stupid stuff on me. Now, as a 12N, I get such high respect because the units are miniscule and very tight knit, as well as being so specialized that even the 12B guys and gals are happy when the 12N's show up.
Btw, a 12N is just an Army version of a Navy Seabee (CB).
I keep having visions of Martin Short on SNL… as part of a men’s synchronized swimming team explaining how he’s not a strong swimmer… wearing water wings… as a poster child for navy recruitment.
Keep in mind that the ASVAB is not an intelligence test. It is an aptitude test.
I got a 94 and ended up a Supply warehouseman because in 1977, Supply was being computerized. The warehouse had a teletype printer. The only thing related to computer knowledge needed was how to put paper into the teletype.
On the other hand, the USAF put me on just about every other additional duty possible that required a high ASVAB score whether it was Supply related or not..
I made a 52 and worked on C-17s and C-5 for 9 years.
When I joined the Marines in 1989, the minimum ASVAB score was for Infantry and the "low level" MOS's. The higher your ASVAB score, the more jobs you qualified for. It's sad to see what it has come to.
Trout looks so pretty with his flower crown.
Navy basic training was not that difficult for me, but I did have one slightly stressful part. I was given the job of helping those who had low scores and struggled with classes. I was surprised at how low some of the ASVAB scores were and that many of those had trouble with simple things. I can't imagine how things are now that the standards have been lowered.
I’ve worked with people that every day was a new day. Didn’t remember anything learned yesterday. I always wondered how long it took them to tie their shoes.
Boot camp. Drill instructor said go in there and shave all the hair off your face.
One guy came out with no eyebrows!!!! I said he's not going to make it!
They kicked him out of the military he tried to sewer slide at basic. 🤦♂️
We had seaman pie, stopper and love. Was a hell of a recruit pool
When i took the ASVAB in 2009, my recruiter told me the national average score at the time was 49.5.
When I was in the Army (98-03), I heard from a friend about a guy in his unit that had taken the ASVAB twice and his combined score was like 54. His first time taking the test, he misspelled his own name.